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Online Watch Link (OWL) is a commercial web application to manage watch schemes such as Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom) and to act as a communications platform to allow watch coordinators and the police to send out messages to members. Other watch schemes are supported such as Pub Watch, School Watch, Farm Watch and Shop Watch for example.

OWL is used by Hertfordshire Constabulary,[1] Staffordshire Police, North Wales Police, Gwent Police, West Yorkshire Police and Dyfed-Powys Police. OWL was originally conceived and prototyped in early 2004. It was redeveloped as a scalable application and launched in June 2006 as a pilot in Welwyn Hatfield. By 2007 it was rolled out across all districts in Hertfordshire. It was recognised by the Government in January 2009 by awarding it an e-Government National Award[2] for innovation and in June 2013 was given a Big Society Award by the Prime Minister for crime reduction and empowering communities.

References

  1. ^ Britain's Digital Elite Working for a Safer Hertfordshire (BAPCO news article)
  2. ^ eGovernment National Award 2008 winners
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